November 2011
3 posts
“Few ought to be called Artists; It’s like calling someone a genius.”
– Unknown
October 2011
2 posts
“It’s good to be, aware of me.”
– John Haro
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
June 2011
2 posts
Current Reading:
Auto Biography of Benjamin Franklin.
May 2011
16 posts
“I used to think art movements happened on their own, but actually they...”
– Dasha Zhukova
“J. Pierpont Morgan observed, in one of his analytical interludes, that a person...”
– Dale Carnegie
“Manner is always seductive. It is more or less an imitation of what has been...”
– Constable
“The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature. -John Dewey
...”
“I will speak ill of no man,… and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Thoughts
Things stem from intentions, at times*; be it good or evil. We should rise the good, and quench the evil; always. But when evil finds its way in good intentions, it’s best, then, to sacrifice the good, for the sake of abolishing evil.
*Do they stem at times only, or always?
New rule:
“Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.”
From book: Ten Steps Ahead
“This will serve to show why original inventors have in general, left so little...”
– William Hazlitt
Book: Ten Steps Ahead
“What is Clairol? Hair dye. What’s the higher thought than that? It lightens your hair. What’s the higher thought than that? Blondes have more fun.”
Excellent book so far, dissecting what makes visionaries; through brain study.
New Book
“In particular, scientists are discovering that the brain is a visionary device—that its primary function is to create pictures in our minds that can be used as blueprint for things that do not yet exist. They are also learning that our brains can work subconsciously to solve problems that we cannot crack through conscious reasoning, and that the brain is a relentless pattern seeker,...
“What matters isn’t what happens to you in life. What really matters is how you...”
– David Neeleman
April 2011
26 posts
Apple.
“How numerous are those who call themselves artists without realizing that this...”
– Casper David Friedrich
“The best painter that ever lived never entirely succeeded more than four or five...”
– Millais
“In literature as in art the rough sketches of the masters are made for...”
– A. Préault
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
– Adolf Hitler
“death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old...”
– Steve Jobs
“…what one has most to work and struggle for in painting, is to do the work...”
– Michael Angelo
“I say “receive” and not “create” because works of art are received in a state of...”
– Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Unfortunately for many artists, the passions are not an exact science, which any...”
– Stendhal (1783-1842) ‘salon of 1824’
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”
– Constantin Brancusi
“As soon as a man is intelligent, his first duty is to be honest and strong. It...”
– Delacroix
“It must not be thought that just because I rejected a thing once, I must ignore...”
– Delacroix
“I should never paint anything that was not the result of an impression received...”
– Millet
“Letting a thing come, rather than creating it - no assertions, constructions,...”
– Gerhard Richter
“The artist let’s us peer into the world through his eyes. That he has...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoughts (stealing)
An artist needs to become an expert at stealing, and extracting. Both of energy and thought. The sooner this is mastered the better. Individual experience does not need to be repeated too many time.